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  • Starliner Astronauts Now Officially Have a Ride Home

    Starliner Astronauts Now Officially Have a Ride Home
    2024/10/03
    The SpaceX Crew-9 mission has launched and docked with the ISS and the 2 Starliner astronauts have seats for a ride home in February. The two NASA astronauts who were bumped from the Crew-9 mission have spoken about missing out and have been put back into the pool for future possible missions. SpaceX has temporarily grounded its Falcon missions after an issue during the Crew-9 launch. Comet T-ATLAS will soon be visible and possibly during daylight hours.

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    37 分
  • The Captain Armband Has Been Passed on ISS

    The Captain Armband Has Been Passed on ISS
    2024/09/25
    Hurricane Helene has delayed the launch of Crew-9. Russia's Soyuz returned home Monday bringing to Earth Oleg Kononenko who now holds the record for most experienced space-flier. The cosmonaut was in command aboard the ISS and has passed that responsibility off to American Suni Williams. A snowman (or peanut) shaped asteroid narrowly missed Earth on a fly-by. The Perseverance rover captured a strange image on Mars of a striped rock, the first of its kind spotted on Mars. And astronomers have discovered a 23 million light-years long jet blasted from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion years ago.

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    40 分
  • What If an Astronaut Needs Surgery in Space?

    What If an Astronaut Needs Surgery in Space?
    2024/09/19
    This week, Shawn is off and Wes responds to a question sent in by a listener who wants to know what would happen if an astronaut aboard the ISS needed surgery.

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    23 分
  • A New Dawn for Commercial Space Missions

    A New Dawn for Commercial Space Missions
    2024/09/12
    Polaris Dawn has completed its spacewalk. Starliner successfully returned to Earth. October will give us comet A3. WASP-76b has iron winds and rain.

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    32 分
  • Starliner Prepares to Return Home

    Starliner Prepares to Return Home
    2024/09/05
    Boeing's Starliner will return home this weekend with its astronauts still on board the ISS. SpaceX will launch its Crew-9 mission later this month with empty seats to return the Starliner astronauts home in February. Polaris Dawn is now scheduled to launch early Saturday. New evidence suggests that a huge asteroid slammed into Ganymede and altered its surface. The DART mission appears to have created the first ever man-made meteor shower that will visit us for 100 years.

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    32 分
  • Astronaut Cady Coleman Joins Us

    Astronaut Cady Coleman Joins Us
    2024/08/27
    Retired astronaut talks with us to talk about appearing at Dragon Con, her book Sharing Space, her documentary The Longest Goodbye, and her incredible career as an astronaut.

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    35 分
  • Doritos, a Milky Way and a Glass of Tang

    Doritos, a Milky Way and a Glass of Tang
    2024/08/22
    The Polaris Dawn Mission is preparing to launch on Tuesday and taking with it some space friendly Doritos. NASA has issued a a FAQ about the Starliner mission and in it they say t hat the astronauts are not stuck on the ISS. Debris from t he DART mission could make its way to Earth and Mars in the next 10 years. A rogue star is making its way out of the Milly Way. Sunspot activity is at a 20 year high.

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    39 分
  • Liquid Water on Mars... Could That Mean?

    Liquid Water on Mars... Could That Mean?
    2024/08/15
    Data from the Mars Insight Lander has revealed oceans of water beneath the surface of Mars. A severe STEVE was detected this week and seen in Texas. Jupiter and Mars are dancing together in the morning sky. NASA's OIG says Boeing has a quality control problem. Primordial black holes were rough on stars.

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    44 分